MV Author Series - Amor Towles discusses The Lincoln Highway

100 Edgartown Road,Oak Bluffs MA 02557

14 August, 2022

Description

The Lincoln Highway was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021, and #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year. It is an exhilarating ride through Americana. Set in 1954, it tells the story of eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson who returns home to Nebraska after serving fifteen months on a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is gone, his father has died, and the family farm has been foreclosed by the bank. Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head to California where they can start new lives. Before he can set that plan in motion, he discovers that two friends from the work farm have a different plan for his future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey to New York city. Told from multiple points of view and spanning ten days, Amor Towles’s third novel is a multilayered tale of misadventure and self-discovery with an eclectic cast of characters, from drifters and vaudevillians to the aristocrats of the Upper East Side. An absorbing, exhilarating ride, The Lincoln Highway is a novel as vivid, sweeping, and moving as readers have come to expect from Towles’s work.